NetBSD: Recent Changes and News

On this page you will find a summary of significant changes to NetBSD. For
those interested in every change to the source tree, there is no substitute
for subscribing to the source-changes mailing list.
Significant news related to the NetBSD Project is also included here.
Changes to pkgsrc are
also listed here. All of this information is also available in rss/xml format.

Oct 2018

05 Oct 2018 - pkgsrc-2018Q3 released

01 Oct 2018 - New Developer in September 2018

The NetBSD project is pleased to welcome the following new developer:

Brad Spencer (login: brad),
who will be working on the evbarm port.

Aug 2018

23 Aug 2018 - End of life for NetBSD 6.x

In keeping with NetBSD's policy of supporting only the latest
(8.x) and next most recent (7.x) major branches, the recent release
of NetBSD 8.0 marks the end of life for NetBSD 6.x. As in the past,
a month of overlapping support has been provided in order to ease
the migration to newer releases.

As of now, the following branches are no longer maintained:

netbsd-6-1

netbsd-6-0

netbsd-6

This means:

There will be no more pullups to those branches (even for security issues)

There will be no security advisories made for any those branches

The existing 6.x releases on ftp.NetBSD.org will be moved into /pub/NetBSD-archive/

May NetBSD 8.0 serve you well! (And if it doesn't, please submit a PR!)

01 Aug 2018 - New Developer in July 2018

The NetBSD project is pleased to welcome the following new developer:

Nia Alarie (login: nia),
who will be working on the NetBSD Packages Collection.

Jul 2018

17 Jul 2018 - NetBSD 8.0 released

NetBSD 8.0 is now available! Please see the release notes
for details.

01 Jul 2018 - New Developer in June 2018

The NetBSD project is pleased to welcome the following new developer:

Travis Paul (login: tpaul),
who will be working on website documentation and the NetBSD Packages Collection.

We are still using cvs (but likely will not do that any more on our next
birthday), but lots of other things have changed. The number of architectures
has exploded, and so has the amount of third party software buildable on
NetBSD.

We are still a small project compared to other operating systems,
but like to think of our crowd as the most friendly, welcoming and
helpful one.

There is still a lot to do, and room for improvements --
keep up the good work and happy birthday, NetBSD!

15 Mar 2018 - NetBSD 7.1.2 released

NetBSD 7.1.2 is now available! Please see the release notes
for details.

01 Mar 2018 - New Developers in February 2018

The NetBSD project is pleased to welcome the following new developers:

Tom Ivar Helbekkmo (login: tih),
who will be working on various general tasks and bug fixing.

Tomohiro Kusumi (login: tkusumi),
who will be working on file systems and ZFS.